ONBOARD A FISHMEAL COMMERICAL FISHING VESSELL AND OUR TOR RESEARCH TEAM

Science and fisheries at the service of sustainability fisheries

Undoubtedly, this sounds a bit difficult to understand, and without a doubt, it is some what complicated that its results can be reflected within this sustainability, but making it run as such, is possible, and it is what currently Twin Ocean Research Foundation, Shark Defenders, International Maritime University of Panama and the company PROMARINA are carrying out since May 2022,  where local marine biologist students from the University are getting onboard these industrial ships, which are dedicated to the capture of small pelagic fish with purse seines, and study the interaction that exists between this large-scale fleet with the populations of sharks and rays in different parts of the Eastern Tropical Pacific in Panama. This research arises as a request by the company to our researcher Yehudi Rodriguez Arriatti, who is a professor at UMIP and a specialist in fisheries and elasmobranch issues

This research seeks, among other things, to know the species of sharks and rays that are captured by this fleet, in what quantities, the months and places where there may be greater interaction, as well as the sizes to know how this structure of sizes is between months and sites. This research will be 3 years and would be the first survey of this type of information for different points of the Pacific of Panama

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